1. The material cited is found in Coussemaker's Scriptorum
de musica medii aevi (CouS). According to Andrew Hughes
(HugMM) this source is inaccurate and incomplete but an
Invaluable collection of medieval treatises. The information should be checked elsewhere.

2. Brian Trowell (TroF) states that the interpretations made
by Sanford Meech are faulty.

3. Ernest Trumble (TruF, 14) states that fauxbourdon originated in Italy. The fact that Dufay was thought to have
been in Italy at the time he wrote his Missa Sancti Jacobi may strengthen this theory.

4. Musicologists disagree concerning the origin of white
mensural notation. Thurston Dart (DarN, 203) discusses
the organ piece "Felix namque" written in void notation
and dated ca. 1400. He thinks that with the discovery of
this piece there is reason to believe that void notation
may have been an English innovation. Manfred Bukofzer
(BukF, 92) states that he believes white mensural notation originated in Italy.

5. Edward Lowinsky (LowF) states that conflicting signatures
in polyphonic music came about due to the gradual alteration of harmonic structure such as the change from a cadence with a 6/3 penultimate chard to a cadence of I-V-I,
and the replacing of the double leading-tone cadence with
the single leading-tone cadence. Richard Hoppin (HopP)
states that he thinks Edward Lowinsky is mistaken in his
assumption that the use of old and new types of cadences
in a transitional period resulted in the need for flats
in the two lower voices. The theorists examples of musica ficta are always in two parts in note against note
counterpoint and their discussions are always concerned
with the two voices of vertical intervals. He also.
states that the signature combinations supposedly caused
by the change in cadential formulas in fact ante-dated
this change. Margaret Bent (BenM) discusses conflicting

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